Steam-separator.



P. A. JOHNSON.

STEAM SEPARATOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.21,190'7.

918,326. Patented Apr. 13, 1909.

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of pipe B, its 11%per end being passed through unrTEn srrrrns PATENT orrren PETER A. JOHNSON, OF BLAOKFOOT, IDAHO.

STE AM-SEPABA'IOB.

No. 918,326. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented April 13, 1909. Application filed. March 21, 1907. Serial No. 363,532.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER A. JOHNSON, oi Blackfoot, in the county of Bingham and The operation of the device is as follows: State of Idaho, have invented certain new The steam passes dmvnwardly through pipe to breaking up the steam and l'reeing it of its and useful Improvements in Steam-Sepa- A and into the pipe B which is closed at its l contained moisture.

rators; and I do hereby declare the following lower end by the floor of the bottom casting, to be a full, clear, and exact description of which results in the steam [lowing upwardly the invention, such as will enable others again through the annular passage between skilled in the art to which it appertains to the lower end oi pipe A and upper end of make and use the same. pipe B. The area ol this annular passage is My invention relates to an improvement in equal to the inner area of pipe A. The flow steam separators, the object being to provide of steam from the annular passage j is downa simple and eilicient device for separating wardly through the annular chamber It: bewater or moisture from steam and thereby tween the pipes B and D, through the curved 7o insure the delivery of dry steam to the cylinpassages "L, i, and into the outlet pipes G and ders of steam engines. thence through the throttle valve of the on- With this object in view my invention congine cylinder. The eileet of these reverse sists in certain features of construction and currents of steam in the pipe B, the downcombinations of parts as will be hereinafter l ward current being met by the upward curdescribed and pointed out in the claims. rent, is to cause the separation of the water In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is or moisture contained in the steam and its a vertical section of my improvement and deposition in the lower end of the pipe B Fig. 2 is a plan view of the base or lower from which it is withdrawn from time to time casting of the device. through the drain pi e F. The series 01 s0 A is a steam pipe to be connected to a suit- I horizontal plates 7L a so assist in breaking able source of supply. up the currents of steam and the separation B is a pi e, the u per end of which eXten ds of the water therefrom. The inner pipe B is above the ower enc of pipe A, while its lower of considerable length which insures quite a screw threaded end ais screwed into the floor distance through which the two oppositely of the bottom casting C. Encircling pipe B moving currents of steam must flow before is a pipe D, the upper end of which is screwed the dry steam can escape and feed downinto 8. depending i ange t of a cover plate E, l wardly through the annular chamber or pasthe upper end of the latter being screwed l sage 7r. While these reverse currents of upon the pipe A. The lower end of pipe D is steam are flowing through this elongated screwed into the upwardly projecting flange chamber they are subjected to complete pc- 0 ol' the bottom casting C. A water glass E l riods of rest which intervene between the has its lower end connected with the interior double strokes of the piston, which action l'acilitz'ttes the separation. When the engine the outer pi e and connecting with the anis stopped all condensation water is collected nular space etween the two pipes B and D. A drain pipe F communicates with the bottom of pipe B.

1 and engine may be started with the dry steam. I The device 1s oi comparatively small cost The bottom casting O is constructed simias standard pipes are employed in its conlar to the steam inlet port of a steam engine t struetion and the bottom casting is made in cylinder. This bottom casting consists of a single piece. two rings g, 9 cast in a single piece and Having fully described my invention what united at opposite sides by the ribs or I claim as new and desire to secure by Letflanges h h, thereby forming two curved ters-Patent, is steam passages 01, i, for the passage of dry l steam from the separator into the engine l of two concentric pipes forming an intercylinder by means of an outlet pipe G to be t mediate annular passage communicating connected with the throttle valve oi the enwith the u per end of the inner pipe, said gine. Arod H is screwed into the floor of the inner pipe eing open at its top and closed bottom casting C, and is provided at suitable l at its bottom, and the outer pipe closed at 110 intervals with horizontal plates 71, which may its top and open at its bottom, a steam pipe or may not be perforated, which assist in entering and discharging into the upper end 1, In a steam separator, the combination I of said inner pipe, and bottom casting to which the two pipes are secured and having steam passages through it which register with the annular passage between the two pipes.

2. In a steam separator, the combination of concentric pipes forming an annular passage between them, said annular passage communicating its upper end with the inner pipe, means at the lower end of said pipes forming an outlet for said annular chamber, a steam supply pipe discharging into the upper end of the inner pipe, said inner pipe close:l at its bottom and the outer pipe closed at its upper end, a standard in the inner pipe and obstructing devices on said standard.

3. In a steam separator, the combination with a bottom casting provided with two screw threaded flanges and intervening steam passages. of two pipes screwed into said. flanges and separated one from the other to form an intervening annular chamber, of a steam supply pipe extending downward into I I I l i I i I r' l the upper end of the inner pipe, and a cap covering the space between the steam supply pipe and the outer pipe, substantially as set forth.

l. In a steam separator, the combination with two pipes one encircling the other and separated from one another to form an intervening annular steam passage, of a steam supply pipe extending downward into the upper and open end of the inner pipe, a cap for c osing the upper end of the outer pipe, a bottom casting, to which the lower ends of both pipes are secured, and providedwith openings for the passage of dry steam through the casting and into the outlet pipe, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER A. JOHNSON.

A. L. FOWLER, G. F. HANsBRoUGn. 

